Middle Class Meltdown in America: Causes, Consequences, and Remedies ("English Labouring-Class Poets, 1700-1900")

In accessible prose for North American undergraduate students, this short text provides a sociological understanding of the causes and consequences of growing middle class inequality, with an abundance of supporting, empirical data. The book also addresses what we, as individuals and as a society, can do to put middle class Americans on a sounder footing.